If you want to say where there are the most festivals, I think it should be Chaoshan. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I worship Bo Gong, and I don't know how many generations of ancestors will worship every memorial day. There are no traditional festivals, and there are Taoists, Buddhists, Confucians and grandfathers. As long as you can think of Chinese immortals and sages, there are Chaoshan people to worship.

Let me see what festivals there are. Welcome to leave a message to complete them!

the traditional festival in Chaoshan

has eight festivals in the year

There is a saying in Chaoshan area: "Don't forget to have eight festivals in the year." Various activities of the "New Year's Day" in Chaoshan area have been passed down from generation to generation and become popular. Or commemoration, or implication, or blessing, rich in folk customs. Chaoshan people go home to reunite with relatives and friends more than these festivals, and enhance the emotion and cohesion of each other's big gongs and drums embedded in porcelain and porcelain.

Spring Festival

On the first day of the first lunar month, Yuan Day is the head of the new year. In Chaoshan area, the Spring Festival is usually busy for four or five days. On the night of the Spring Festival, in the streets and alleys, families put up Spring Festival couplets and decorated themselves with lanterns. Have a reunion dinner. On the morning of the Spring Festival, adults and children bring a pair or two pairs of raw oranges (called "Daji") to visit relatives and friends for a New Year's greetings. The cultural and recreational activities in the Spring Festival include singing and dancing, camp gongs and drums, holding big flags, buma dance, dragon dance, lion dance and carp dance.

Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, which was called Shangyuan Festival in ancient times. Commonly known as "Lantern Festival", Chaoshan people call it "the first half of the first month", and there has always been a saying that "the first day of junior high school is the fifteenth day". On that day, banyan leaves and bamboo branches should be inserted on the lintel of every household to ensure peace; The programs to celebrate the Lantern Festival mainly include: camp master, flower viewing lanterns, adding lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, throwing money at Maitreya Buddha and so on.

Tomb-Sweeping Day

The custom of visiting graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day is very popular in Chaoshan, and the custom of sweeping graves is "over paper". In the old days, it was necessary to fill the ancestral graves, sweep away dust and weeds, paint a new stone tablet with red lacquer oil, and hang yellow and white paper strips on the tombstones and graves to hold a sacrifice ceremony.

Dragon Boat Festival

Chaoshan people call the Dragon Boat Festival "May Festival", and there are two kinds of dragon boat races in Chaoshan: "real dragon" and "fake dragon". There is a meteorological proverb that "May rice dumplings are not eaten until they are broken". In Chaoshan people, bundles of wormwood, calamus, pomegranate, garlic and dragon boat flowers tied with "red head rope" are hung under the lintel, knocker and even eaves during the Dragon Boat Festival, which are called "five Rui".

Mid-Autumn Festival

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Commonly known as "July and a half", "shi gu" and "Ghost Festival", it is also called "Yulan Victory Club". On the day of "Shi Gu", chaozhou people set up the "shi gu" with the village as the unit, or put sacrifices and money paper at his door, burn money paper after the sacrifice, sprinkle white rice on the ground, burn incense and pray, and insert incense on the ground in front of and behind the house.

Mid-Autumn Festival

commonly known as "August and a half", the main programs are: 1. Taro to worship ancestors. There is a common saying in Chaoshan: "When rivers and streams talk to each other, the taro tastes terrible." ; 2. Worship the Moon, most people will elaborate handicrafts for Yue Bai one month before the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Yue Bai, there are also essential items such as the Eight Immortals Table, "(Eight Immortals) Baozi", Daxiang, all kinds of fruits and pies, etc. In Yue Bai, most people are women and children, so there is a common saying that "men don't have a full moon, and women don't sacrifice stoves". 3. burn the tower. Every element of these programs is almost related to the anti-Yuan history of Chaoshan people (transmitting information)

Winter Festival

Winter Festival is the winter solstice in the twenty-four season and climate, which will last for one year when there is a gap in farming, so it is also called Small New Year. In the old winter festival, gods and ancestors were sacrificed, and the whole family ate sweet glutinous rice balls to show their happy reunion. In addition, on the winter solstice, there are sacrifices to ancestors, eating sweet pills (eating "Winter Festival Pills" will make you one year older), going to graves to sweep graves, etc. (Qingming Festival "Spring Paper", Winter Solstice "Winter Paper")

New Year's Eve

Chaoshan people call it "New Year's Eve" or "New Year's Eve". In the afternoon, a family, old and young, had a haircut, bathed in new clothes, and then began to worship their ancestors. Sacrifices and ceremonies are offered to ancestors, and the old couplets at the gate, hall and door are torn off and pasted with new Spring Festival couplets. Then there are "around the stove" to eat the reunion dinner and give lucky money (also called "waist pressing"). And keeping the old age.

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Going out of the garden on July 7th

Going out of the garden is a traditional adult festival. The adult ceremony held by boys and girls at the age of 15 is slightly different from place to place. In Chenghai, Jieyang, parents collected 12 different kinds of flowers and bathed their children in water. The mother put on a new waist pocket sewn by herself, and there were generally 12 longan and two "Shunzhi" copper coins in the pocket. On the day of going out of the garden, the young people who have made the ceremony have some restrictions and pay attention to abide by them. Now, many ceremonies have been simplified.

Double Ninth Festival in September

Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival, is an important festival of traditional folk custom and folk sacrifice in Chaoshan, Guangdong. On this day in Chaoshan, there are various traditional folk activities with local characteristics. Because its festival is on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. The ancients regarded nine as the yang number, so it was also called "Chongyang". Chaoshan folk only call it "September 9th". Double Ninth Festival custom. The people who worship their ancestors on the Double Ninth Festival are poor people. They are unable to worship every ancestor's death day, so they make a general worship on this day to get their ancestors' understanding.

beginning of winter has a small year.